Last weekend I went with a friend to a string of local openings. Some of the shows I saw I don’t even remember looking at, although I distinctly remember every conversation I overheard or had on the night in question. The conversations were compelling and funny, and at times actually intelligent sounding, which is probably [...]
Now with two art fairs under my belt, not only does it really hurts when I sit down, but I have also become the world’s leading authority on ALL THINGS ART WORLD, and having established my authority as such, will share with you my observations on Houston’s latest contribution to the genre, the Texas Contemporary [...]
Until Thursday September 15, I had never once been to an art fair. I find this astonishing since I am 55. I once had a piece in an art fair that was held in a hotel, with each vendor displaying the work from his or her gallery in hotel rooms. I like to imagine [...]
In my younger days, between my divorce in 1985 and my return from Baltimore in 2004, I moved many, many a time. Each time I moved, I would cull through the shelves, and drawers and cabinets of my house and get rid of the old band aid papers, and tags and spare thread and extra [...]
Disclaimer: Quod tu es, ego fui, quod ego sum, tu eris. About a half a block from where I live is a family of Christian Republicans, whose patriarch walks across the street every morning, and steals the newspaper off his neighbor’s lawn. In the Christian Republican family’s yard is a sign suggesting we elect a [...]
Disclaimer: A mother and a child did not actually push me out of the way; they shanked me over and over again until I finally moved. I know that Gallery Furniture is not a gallery, but again, it uses the word in its name, and therefore I am compelled to write about it. I went [...]
Disclaimer: I am so confused, do you go by Robert or Rob? CLICK ON THE LINKS OR YOU MAY NOT GET THIS ONE AT ALL Two weeks ago I went to see my friend Robert A. Pruitt’s exhibition, The Forever People at Hooks Epstein Gallery and on view through February 13, 2010. Robert based [...]
Disclaimer: Swallows actually have extremely keen eye sight, and if anything are hyperopic. You are probably wondering where I have been, as it has been weeks and weeks since I last corresponded with you. My actual whereabouts are complicated, but I will say this – two weeks ago I appeared at Marco Villegas show, [...]
Disclaimer: This story, like any large sculpture, is fabricated. Art League Houston Last week I went to Art League Houston to see Brent Kollock’s Obsession of the Essential, as well as Natural Recyclers and Wasted Resolve, two installations by Divya Murthy and Nicola Parente. I guess you could say that I didn’t [...]
DISCLAIMER: Despite evidence to the contrary, I prefer cash. Last week, before going to Will Henry and Matthew Sontheimer’s shows at Butler/Borden Gallery, I stopped in at the Gem and Bead Gallery in the Rice Village. Although not a gallery in the traditional sense, it’s the perfect one stop-shopping place for all your holiday [...]
DISCLAIMER: Warning: Although the company has taken reasonable precautions to ensure no vowels are present in this article, the company cannot accept responsibility for any italics or umlaut in the event therein. Who among us has not suspected they might have a doppelgänger, and then of the remaining 64% of you, who has not [...]
The Joanna Resort Hotel and Gallery DISCLAIIMER: I have not nor will I ever accept any gifts from the staff and management of The Joanna Resort Hotel and Gallery. Furthermore, in order to fit in all five photographs, I just stuck them any old place, regardless of whether they sync up with the story [...]
DISCLAIMER: Once again, I have used a lot of words (including a back assward type of pigeon Spanish) and said absolutely nothing, which can be easily explained by the fact that long ago my keyboard became inhabited by a long-winded idiot demon. A Gallery Whose Name I Failed to Write Down and Canal Street Gallery [...]
DISCLAIMER: Neither the DHS, OIS, PMO nor any other agency or entities thereof, assumes any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information disclosed in this article. It was bound to happen. Word has gotten out that I hate everything and gallery owners have begun to protect themselves [...]
DISCLAIMER: Nolo Tangere la ursa. Blossom Street Gallery My dear friends, I must ask forgiveness for not writing last week, as I was in New York covering the United Nations world summit for the HS Gridiron. I’m back and this weekend I visited Blossom Street Gallery, which gives me occasion to talk about abstract [...]
DISCLAIMER: Not a review. Not the Truth. Not a word of it. There is an exhibition of videos at DiverseWorks , entitled something like "Now that I am by myself,” she says, “I can eat in bed and don’t have to worry about the crumbs." This exhibition is curated by Rachel Cook, and features the [...]
DISCLAIMER: This has been carefully edited by Sean. This weekend I went to the Kathy Womack Gallery, located in the River Oaks Shopping Center. There is a Kathy Womack Gallery in Houston, there is a Kathy Womack Gallery in Austin, and there will soon be a Kathy Womack Gallery in Las Vegas, as well as [...]
DISCLAIMER!!!: This is not a review, and in fact I did not know I wrote it. In 1993, shortly after Rick Lowe and some other people, who nobody seems to mention anymore, discovered the block and a half of abandoned homes in Houston’s Third Ward, those houses now commonly referred to as Project Row Houses, [...]
Fifteen days ago I saw two beautiful exhibitions at Devin Borden/Hiram Butler Gallery: School’s Out, with photographs by Dallas-base photographer Allison V. Smith , and New Works on Paper. featuring what I just said by Houston’s own Brooke Stroud. While I was taking a look see, Hiram, as always the consummate host, invited me in [...]
DISCLAIMER: You know the drill, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Last week I went to the Station Museum of Contemporary Art where I met the clumsiest man alive, Carlos Runcie-Tanaka. This poor man breaks more plates than the Earth’s lithosphere, which doesn’t actually break plates, but shifts them, which is beside the point. Before we [...]
